GSSAPI / Native Kerberos API

Konstantin Kunshchikov kvk at elbrus.ru
Thu Jul 25 05:50:37 EDT 2002


Hi, Christian!

>
>Well, what I want to do is secure the access to an application server which
>will make objects available through a TCP service. The application server is
>not yet developed, but the client is, though without any secured
>authentication so far. So i guess i should definitly choose SASL.
>
>Any known cases/architectures/environments where SASL and/or GSSAPI  might
>fail ?
>

One of that case is CMU SASL and MIT Kerberos currently not thread-safe.

Regards,
Konstantin.

>Anyway, thanks to you guys for the replies.
>
>Christian.
>
>
>
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